I just want to quickly mention how much I love this guy's composing style. He uses the cello the provide the third chord for the 1st violins at 0:08 which adds so much depth to the piece. Amazing.
Whenever I listen to the first movement it makes me cry about my own potential. I remember playing this in orchestra and it being some of the best times in my life. The first piece reminds me of losing and finding your potential, how it comes and goes. How you have it in your hands until it slips away. Until finally, you come to terms with who you are meant to be.
I completely understand how you feel, Helen. I performed for nearly 40 years as a symphony contra-bassist, but my career got cut short by a health problem. I sorely miss that, but I'm feeling better and have gotten back into playing my violin for Jesus, so there is some consolation and a sense of divine destiny. God bless you Helen.
Hi, Helen. What instrument do you play? I used to play the viola. I have had exactly the same emotional response to Elgar's Serenade, Britten's Simple Symphony, Hindemith's Trauermusik, et al.
This is outstanding. not only beautiful and meticulously composed, but I've just never have someone make a string orchestra sound so diverse and each line is sung out in such a way. So interwoven and complicated, but still seems to sing sweet little tunes to you.
About one hour ago, I was listening to this serenade on KUSC without to know who was the author. I was thinking it was from Antonin Dvorak. Then came the announcement: Joseph Suk! I went back on TH-cam to find a rendition and found this one. Reading the introduction, no surprise that Suk was a student of Dvorak. It seems to me that Suk use similar structures than Dvorack. Nevertheless, this serenade for strings is a very beautiful and touching piece of music largely deserving to be in the repertoire of today's orchestras.
I have never heard of this composer before, but I am thoroughly impressed. The intimacy of the music is apparent right from the start. Moments like the one that starts at 18:14 are peppered throughout the piece with enough frequency to make my heart soar. What a lovely thing to stumble upon on a Thursday evening. The rest of my night shall be brighter than daylight.
If you love this kind of music, then you might want to look out Dag Wirén, Kurt Atterberg and Lars-Erik Larsson; all Swedish composers who wrote terrific music for string orchestra.
I agree with Joost Kiefte. Check out Lars-Erik Larsson's Pastoralsvit, op. 19 (1938) with the lovely Romans. Or Dag Wirén's Serenade for strings, op. 11 (1937) with the final movement, Marcia.
The adagio part of this makes me weep each time 10:39 The melancholy which Dvorak spoke about. So beautiful how he captured it but it does end more cheery. Always amazes me how you can create such a sound as this from instruments and that it can invoke these feelings. I guess that's the beauty of aural art. Stunning musician. The opus 7 piece first mvt is also a gem.
I keep listening to this recording, wondering if it's just Suk's composing or if it's the beautiful way the orchestra is playing this piece. I think both parties are on fire here. The way the orchestra makes the first and last movements sound so bright and cheerful even in e flat major, but plays the 3rd movement so tenderly in g major. I am so thankful Suk composed this piece and we have this orchestra's recording.
This serenade is strikingly beautiful! I have been enjoying it so much in some of the You Tube Rare History videos. Thank you so much for sharing it, Bartje.
Yes, Just LOVE this romantic gesture, so reminds of other Serenades that we string players love so much, esp Elgar, Dvorak, Tch, etc. yes, it was the best of times playing these!!!!! we just had Suk's op 1 piano quartet here @ summerfest La Jolla CA last week. Gems all. Douglas Gunderson viola, piano, organ, guitar, recorders and poet of SD CA
@@steveegallo3384 one year ago? timeless. you mean they actually have classical music in Acapulco? Another excuse to run this thing one more time. It's heartbreaking. tell me about Acapulco. I preformed in TJ a few times but the border cancelled it.. DG San Diego CA
@@dgunde13gunderson78 -- No, DG...I lied. There are many ex-pats here so perhaps there is a 'classical music scene,' but I wouldn't know since I'm anti-social, don't go out, prefer to be alone and spend 90% of my time in the apartment or the pool. We're in a major Heat Wave now. I did acquire a Yamaha p-45 but seldom play........
Popular radaio stations like Classic FM need to discover this. So do more of our small orchestras. It would also make an exccellent basis for a ballet.
Of course not. Neither are the Bachs, Mozarts, Song of the Earth frequently danced to. But this is music that can be danced to. Though perhaps it is better just to concentrate on the sound without distraction.
I loved this song since I was 14 and desperately dreamed of playing the first movement with my school. My junior year I moved to a school with a more advanced orchestra program and got into the chamber orchestra by my senior year. And to my pleasant surprise this song was one of the few songs we were gonna play for state. I was so excited, we practiced that song so much and I loved watching it come together. We performed it for our winter concert little did I know that was gonna be our last persormance cuz Covid came around 2 months later. I was SO DISTRAUGHT. I obviously am still not over it.
yes, unbelievable@! Mentored by Dvorak whose own Serenade must have propelled it. Don't forget the other Joseph Suks trying to get them straight who was who......DG
I’m very joyous to have discovered the beauty of this for the very first time today, at the sunrise of a very pretty morning no less! Wow I’m astounded. Words pale in insignificance.
Y’all it’s beautiful until you have the misfortune of playing it update: I now have to play this piece for the second time in my life and I am not looking forward to it
Really? I've been loving this piece for 4 years now and I moved to a school with a better orchestra and coincidentally we're playing the first movement! I'm excited to practice it. Hopefully this won't ruin the song for me:,)
this piece is absolutely beautiful but playing it is so confusing. it's like the melody shouldn't align with 4/4??? the counting screws me up every time
I don't believe so. Other composers are allowed to use a perfect fourth interval lol. It doesn't follow the same motif as the scheherezade one. Also Scheherezade was published in 1888, only 4 years before this piece.
How great to see the score!!! There's just one small problem, so far (I'm on pause in the first mvt. atm) not much attention is being given to the written dynamics! A nice piece for strings though. I'm loving following the score, thank you.
> The Young Danish Chamber Orchestra conducted by Please, even 6 years later, please finish that sentence - what was the conductor? You've been keeping us in suspense all these years!
That second movement is my favorite piece of all time, and nothing of Dvořák has ever thrilled me as much, though I'm sure you know Dvoŕák was his teacher.
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Lmao my school orchestra is playing this, and I’m leading, the second violins literally sound like a bunch of dying cats, and I’m like the only one actually playing the high part in the firsts. Shows the abysmal quality of our school orchestra
I am leading cellos and mood af. Like I mean, my solo parts are ok, but on the beginning where we play theme, it's extremely hard to get that a flat and b flat up there.
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I’am not blaming you. I’d just rather be forced to watch 3 minutes before the music instead of abrupt interruptions. And I can’t afford the ludicrous ad-free fee.
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He was 18 when this was written. I'm gobsmacked.
18 years, it's absolutely unbelievable....
@@NINOABSNABSN The influence of his musical mentor, Antonín Dvořák
@@parthoroy9141he absolutely outclassed Dvořák with this piece
I just want to quickly mention how much I love this guy's composing style. He uses the cello the provide the third chord for the 1st violins at 0:08 which adds so much depth to the piece. Amazing.
the first 15 seconds is like the most beautiful thing i have ever heard
After that it's bad?
YUSSSS
For me this Is Christmas
it's that melody in the 3rd phrase
Try listening to dvorak 8 then.
Finally, a recording of this piece that doesn't Suk
Ahahaha 🤣
LOL
Oh dear, what did I do to deserve that pun-ishment?
🤦🏾♂️
😂
Whenever I listen to the first movement it makes me cry about my own potential. I remember playing this in orchestra and it being some of the best times in my life. The first piece reminds me of losing and finding your potential, how it comes and goes. How you have it in your hands until it slips away. Until finally, you come to terms with who you are meant to be.
I completely understand how you feel, Helen. I performed for nearly 40 years as a symphony contra-bassist, but my career got cut short by a health problem. I sorely miss that, but I'm feeling better and have gotten back into playing my violin for Jesus, so there is some consolation and a sense of divine destiny. God bless you Helen.
Hi, Helen. What instrument do you play? I used to play the viola. I have had exactly the same emotional response to Elgar's Serenade, Britten's Simple Symphony, Hindemith's Trauermusik, et al.
Yep. I feel this.
You are making me cry
A brave and relatable admission.
Andante con moto
0:01
Allegro ma non tripping e grazioso
4:58
Adagio
10:39
Allegro giocoso,ma non troppo presto
19:30
This is outstanding. not only beautiful and meticulously composed, but I've just never have someone make a string orchestra sound so diverse and each line is sung out in such a way. So interwoven and complicated, but still seems to sing sweet little tunes to you.
About one hour ago, I was listening to this serenade on KUSC without to know who was the author. I was thinking it was from Antonin Dvorak. Then came the announcement: Joseph Suk! I went back on TH-cam to find a rendition and found this one. Reading the introduction, no surprise that Suk was a student of Dvorak. It seems to me that Suk use similar structures than Dvorack. Nevertheless, this serenade for strings is a very beautiful and touching piece of music largely deserving to be in the repertoire of today's orchestras.
suk is also the son in law of dvorak
I have never heard of this composer before, but I am thoroughly impressed. The intimacy of the music is apparent right from the start. Moments like the one that starts at 18:14 are peppered throughout the piece with enough frequency to make my heart soar. What a lovely thing to stumble upon on a Thursday evening. The rest of my night shall be brighter than daylight.
Joseph Suk was Anton Dvorák's son in law.
If you love this kind of music, then you might want to look out Dag Wirén, Kurt Atterberg and Lars-Erik Larsson; all Swedish composers who wrote terrific music for string orchestra.
th-cam.com/video/rruD198FwAU/w-d-xo.html please enjoy!
I agree with Joost Kiefte. Check out Lars-Erik Larsson's Pastoralsvit, op. 19 (1938) with the lovely Romans. Or Dag Wirén's Serenade for strings, op. 11 (1937) with the final movement, Marcia.
Give his Fantasticke Scherzo a shot. He wrote a lot of great music.
The adagio part of this makes me weep each time 10:39 The melancholy which Dvorak spoke about. So beautiful how he captured it but it does end more cheery. Always amazes me how you can create such a sound as this from instruments and that it can invoke these feelings. I guess that's the beauty of aural art. Stunning musician. The opus 7 piece first mvt is also a gem.
I keep listening to this recording, wondering if it's just Suk's composing or if it's the beautiful way the orchestra is playing this piece. I think both parties are on fire here. The way the orchestra makes the first and last movements sound so bright and cheerful even in e flat major, but plays the 3rd movement so tenderly in g major. I am so thankful Suk composed this piece and we have this orchestra's recording.
It is our Czech composer, a very gentle and person with a pure soul and a great love for children and God..
That's very ironic because Czech has the highest percentage of nonreligious people
So so beautiful through and through. And unique! I keep listening to the first movement. The melodies!
God his trio was the first i’d heard of him. This is so nice too!! My new composer obsession thanks!
I’m legit obsessed with the ending of the first movement 😅
This serenade is strikingly beautiful! I have been enjoying it so much in some of the You Tube Rare History videos. Thank you so much for sharing it, Bartje.
The cello line near the end of the first movement is beautiful
Until you actually play it.
@@klarahorakova9957 nea, just learn to play the cello.
So melodically and harmonically rich and complex
Yes, Just LOVE this romantic gesture, so reminds of other Serenades that we string players love so much, esp Elgar, Dvorak, Tch, etc. yes, it was the best of times playing these!!!!! we just had Suk's op 1 piano quartet here @ summerfest La Jolla CA last week. Gems all. Douglas Gunderson viola, piano, organ, guitar, recorders and poet of SD CA
@dgunde13gunderson78 -- Heard it here in Acapulco, too.....Cheers!
@@steveegallo3384 one year ago? timeless. you mean they actually have classical music in Acapulco? Another excuse to run this thing one more time. It's heartbreaking. tell me about Acapulco. I preformed in TJ a few times but the border cancelled it..
DG San Diego CA
@@dgunde13gunderson78 -- No, DG...I lied. There are many ex-pats here so perhaps there is a 'classical music scene,' but I wouldn't know since I'm anti-social, don't go out, prefer to be alone and spend 90% of my time in the apartment or the pool. We're in a major Heat Wave now. I did acquire a Yamaha p-45 but seldom play........
@@steveegallo3384 in
@@dgunde13gunderson78 -- "in" ? Too deep for me, yo.........
Today would have been Josef Suk's 150th birthday (4 Jan 1874).
oh my god... did he die?
Beautiful! Thank you for posting!
Popular radaio stations like Classic FM need to discover this. So do more of our small orchestras. It would also make an exccellent basis for a ballet.
Of course not. Neither are the Bachs, Mozarts, Song of the Earth frequently danced to. But this is music that can be danced to. Though perhaps it is better just to concentrate on the sound without distraction.
Yes - but the ballets are often based on other music! But I take your point that music is best "used" the way the composers intended.
Why not dance to it?. .. to any music that makes you want to dance. What could be lovelier?
Classic FM (the Netherlands) broadcast this yestersday.
Just heard it there today, whole reason I looked it up :D
They used to play the second movement on the radio all the time where I live. :)
aw that's cool :D
Genius Josef Suk, wonderful music.......
I loved this song since I was 14 and desperately dreamed of playing the first movement with my school. My junior year I moved to a school with a more advanced orchestra program and got into the chamber orchestra by my senior year. And to my pleasant surprise this song was one of the few songs we were gonna play for state. I was so excited, we practiced that song so much and I loved watching it come together. We performed it for our winter concert little did I know that was gonna be our last persormance cuz Covid came around 2 months later. I was SO DISTRAUGHT. I obviously am still not over it.
I dare say that this 1st. movement is the most beautiful and passionate piece ever written.
Why is no one talking about the suprising passage at 21:37 , its so beatifull wow
What a gem! I must discover more.
感謝版主介紹樂曲的創作背景! 並請多多上傳這類好聽的樂曲,尤其是稀有的!
The melodic writing is tantalizing.
Anyone else's heart sink at 0:09? 😱
21:38 :)
21:15 :)
20:50 :)
(viola part)
0:29 TwT
mine too!!
Beautiful!!
So beautiful!
I have to play this, it’s so beautiful!
The beginning is my favourite part! ✌🏽
Have you played it yet?
14:31 it’s soooo beautiful
Very nice string writing.
Wait, so if Suk was born in 1874, and this piece was written in 1892... was Suk only 18 when this was written?
Yes
@@bartjebartmans holy smokes
yes, unbelievable@! Mentored by Dvorak whose own Serenade must have propelled it. Don't forget the other Joseph Suks
trying to get them straight who was who......DG
@@dgunde13gunderson78 This Suk was the grandfather of the other one.
15:45 how beautiful is it...❤
How to feel incompetent: Play this
ThatHairyViolist The fourth movement is especially hard, at tempo, to learn. At least that is my opinion.
Okay, I will definitely check it out.
Oh Gustavo that is cruel. Proposing to play an orchestral audition piece. ;)
Don't forget Strauss' Ein Heldenleben, or Dukas' La Peri!
Easy
Bravo!
Thanks for sharing this!
Gorgeous recording!
I’m very joyous to have discovered the beauty of this for the very first time today, at the sunrise of a very pretty morning no less! Wow I’m astounded. Words pale in insignificance.
Absolut super !!
Absolument sublime
I die every time at 0:08 its so pretty
what a gem!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BRAVO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Y’all it’s beautiful until you have the misfortune of playing it
update: I now have to play this piece for the second time in my life and I am not looking forward to it
Really? I've been loving this piece for 4 years now and I moved to a school with a better orchestra and coincidentally we're playing the first movement! I'm excited to practice it. Hopefully this won't ruin the song for me:,)
iwannacry 2.0 have fun
@@simonli4484 ahAhA i got down the first 5 lines and i'm already stressed
I have to play it for school, as a viola. *send help*
Ry3 :)
16:03 stunning fortepiano
I’m playing this piece in my school’s chamber orchestra
J’adore
this piece is absolutely beautiful but playing it is so confusing. it's like the melody shouldn't align with 4/4??? the counting screws me up every time
Hey @ 8:31 is that a quote from Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade?
I don't believe so. Other composers are allowed to use a perfect fourth interval lol. It doesn't follow the same motif as the scheherezade one. Also Scheherezade was published in 1888, only 4 years before this piece.
amazing!
I love this
Do you think it would work as a string quintet..? Might not be full enough..?
How great to see the score!!!
There's just one small problem, so far (I'm on pause in the first mvt. atm) not much attention is being given to the written dynamics! A nice piece for strings though. I'm loving following the score, thank you.
great
Mr. Lentz's playing test starts at 5:28.
I use 5:23 to get into it.
11:15 Zelda's Lullaby?
I think that this *might* have come out first
Good music
Cool
Music: Serenade for Strings - Josef Suk
> The Young Danish Chamber Orchestra conducted by
Please, even 6 years later, please finish that sentence - what was the conductor? You've been keeping us in suspense all these years!
It should be obvious I don't have his/her name.
Josef Suk was Antonin Dvořak's son-in-law.
If i want to practice this piece of music, what should I put in my metronome for the 2nd movement
probably quarter note equals 100 to start out practicing slowly, but once you can play it faster, transition to counting in one
um❤❤❤❤❤
this is copyright free btw ad i d still give them credit for this song but i used this in youtube music btw for my upcoming film
INFINITY HORSES^^J
First part of 4th movement reminds of Aaron Copland
I'm suppose to do this pieces for my SYF performance...
Where i can get the sheet música?
IMSLP site
good
Je to úchvatně krásné! Jak může být hudba nádherná
That high C though.
rip at 0:09
Wow this sounds like a Dvorak!
This ranks with the Dvorak and Tchaikovsky master works
I only played it once and rarely see it performed
Why?
My ranking is 1. Tchaikovsky 2. Suk 3. Dvořák
I'm with you on wanting to hear it more!
0:47 that restatement
I like how each time its restated he masterfully makes it sweeter or grander. The one at 3:40 is my fav because epic cello part
does this include polyphony or homophony
21:28 Polyphony
21:38 Homophony
released!
What is the meaning of life?
21:50 44p tranquil
hermosa serenata para cuerdas
19:27
LOST MY BIRGINITY TO THIS ONE!
20:55
definitely hear the FIL’s influence
Is it just me, or does Dvorak come back to life to haunt movement 2?
That second movement is my favorite piece of all time, and nothing of Dvořák has ever thrilled me as much, though I'm sure you know Dvoŕák was his teacher.
@@josed.vargas3961 I didn't. I'm not educated at all in music history. But thanks for the information.
🍷
4:56
It would be a great and demanding quintet. Do it...
3:31
first movement sounds like Mendelssohn
Wow, never heard of this composer before! He must have been the Salieri of Dvorák.
He was the son in law of Dvorak.
26:14
The number of commercial interruptions in the middle of this PIECE OF MUSIC is outrageous. What a way to spoil a nice idea.
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Lmao my school orchestra is playing this, and I’m leading, the second violins literally sound like a bunch of dying cats, and I’m like the only one actually playing the high part in the firsts. Shows the abysmal quality of our school orchestra
Aaswas Kniij NEEK
I’m in your school orchestra u play second viola. Your instrument is budget firewood
I am leading cellos and mood af. Like I mean, my solo parts are ok, but on the beginning where we play theme, it's extremely hard to get that a flat and b flat up there.
Horrible commercial breaks!
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I’am not blaming you. I’d just rather be forced to watch 3 minutes before the music instead of abrupt interruptions. And I can’t afford the ludicrous ad-free fee.
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Better than Dvorak
You are aware - are you not, Mr. Vargas, that you are speaking about Dvorak's son-in-law, right?
It's been three years and I just listened to the Dvorak Serenade and this Serenade back-to-back and my opinion has not changed
Uttre, utter rubbish. As a professional pianist this is just not true. You cannot cut corners in learning any instrument. Don`t believe a word of it.
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